if you can't bilk the tax cattle, what's the point of living?
After all, it is what we do, it's what we have always done,
it is who we are.
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You must have attended same meeting as me! Yeah, same story for SLS too. Boeing executives knew they couldn't successfully develop anything given how they destroyed engineering much less compete with SpaceX but they figured they could successfully extract $$$ from the government to fund their executive payouts.
Boeing never intended for this to be a successful project. Their goal was to string out the development to drain as much funding from NASA as they could. Betting there are a handful of NASA execs in the mix of fraud as well.
https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-launch-delay-march-2024
Now delayed until March 2024 at earliest...and can't imagine NASA would allow a newly designed and manufactured vehicle to carry astronauts without successfully completing some uncrewed tests first...
Given that NASA has already contracted all thr remaining astronaut flights to SpaceX until ISS is decommissioned, don't see any upside to continuing this failed project. Given that SpaceX owns the lowest cost to orbit because of their reusable hardware approach, don't see any point for Boeing pursue anything space anymore.
Yes, this project must just be another Boeing executive welfare affair.
Because there are nepo Boeing executives making big bucks from the Starliner project...which is the only reason Boeing is still in business. Honesty, project profit margin, quality engineering/manufacturing and safety have not mattered at Boeing for many years.
Boeing laid off most of the BDS engineers in the Pacific Northwest when they did the work transition to South Carolina.
They thought they could staff with engineers in Huntsville with no experience right out of college, and not lose any engineering expertise.
That move worked out about as well as moving the 787 production to Charleston.
Lost in the punctuation.
need more military contract(s.
It’s because Boeing will owe millions back to NASA!